2023–24 Season Calendar

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Speakers

Ai Weiwei with Peter Sellars and Orville Schell

Ai Weiwei’s World of Art Lost and Found:
A Conversation About Life, Art, and Politics

Sep 24, 2023, 2pm
Recital

Jeremy Denk, piano

Oct 1, 2023, 3pm
Recital

Tom Borrow, piano

Oct 1, 2023, 3pm
Cancelled
Speakers

Ezra Klein: A Liberalism That Builds

Oct 5, 2023, 4pm
Recital

Christine Goerke, soprano
Craig Terry, piano

A Celebration of the American Diva

Oct 8, 2023, 3pm
Cancelled
Recital

Avi Avital, mandolin
Hanzhi Wang, accordion

Oct 15, 2023, 3pm
Family

The Triplets of Belleville Cine-Concert

Oct 21–22, 2023
Early Music

Los Angeles Master Chorale

Music to Accompany a Departure
Bay Area Premiere

Oct 28, 2023, 8pm
Recital

Michelle Cann, piano

Oct 29, 2023, 3pm
Recital

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello

Nov 1, 2023, 7:30pm
Theater

John Cameron Mitchell and Amber Martin in Cassette Roulette

Nov 4, 2023, 8pm
Early Music

Jean Rondeau, harpsichord

Nov 5, 2023, 3pm
Early Music

Le Consort

A Journey through Baroque Europe

Nov 8, 2023, 7:30pm
Chamber Music & Orchestra

San Francisco Symphony
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

Carey Bell, clarinet

Nov 10, 2023, 8pm
Jazz

Brad Mehldau Trio

Nov 11, 2023, 8pm
Chamber Music & Orchestra

Takács Quartet

Nov 12, 2023, 3pm
Vocal Celebration

Kristin Chenoweth

For the Girls

Nov 15, 2023, 7:30pm
New Music, Illuminations: Individual & Community

American Railroad
Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens

Nov 17, 2023, 8pm
Early Music

The English Concert
Handel’s Rodelinda

Harry Bicket, conductor

Nov 19, 2023, 3pm
Dance, Illuminations: Individual & Community

Urban Bush Women

Hair & Other Stories
Bay Area Premiere

Dec 1–3, 2023
Jazz

Matthew Whitaker

Dec 8, 2023, 8pm
Early Music

Tallis Scholars

While Shepherds Watched
Peter Phillips, director

Dec 13, 2023, 7:30pm
Vocal Celebration

San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus

Holiday Spectacular

Dec 17, 2023, 5pm
Jazz

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Jan 25, 2024, 7:30pm
Dance

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

Jan 27–28, 2024
Recital

Filippo Gorini, piano

Jan 28, 2024, 3pm
New Music

Eco Ensemble

The Music of Cindy Cox
David Milnes, director

Feb 3, 2024, 8pm
Theater

John Malkovich in The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer

Feb 3, 2024, 8pm
Cancelled
Chamber Music & Orchestra

Attacca Quartet

Feb 4, 2024, 3pm
Recital

Maria Manetti Shrem Great Artist Performance

Renée Fleming, soprano
Howard Watkins, piano

Feb 9, 2024, 8pm
Recital

Brad Mehldau: Fourteen Reveries

Feb 10, 2024, 8pm
Recital

David Finckel, cello
Wu Han, piano

Beethoven’s Cello Sonatas

Feb 11, 2024, 3pm
Dance, Illuminations: Individual & Community

common ground[s]

by Germaine Acogny & Malou Airaudo

The Rite of Spring

by Pina Bausch
Bay Area Premiere

Feb 16–18, 2024
Recital

Erin Morley, soprano
Malcolm Martineau, piano

Feb 18, 2024, 3pm
Theater, Illuminations: Individual & Community

Taylor Mac & Matt Ray’s
Bark of Millions

West Coast Premiere

Feb 23–25, 2024
Chamber Music & Orchestra

Takács Quartet

Feb 25, 2024, 3pm
Theater, Illuminations: Individual & Community

Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge
Elevator Repair Service

Bay Area Premiere

Mar 1–3, 2024
New Music

Kronos Quartet

Five Decades

Mar 2, 2024, 8pm
Recital

Conrad Tao, piano

Mar 3, 2024, 3pm
Chamber Music & Orchestra

Isidore String Quartet

Mar 5, 2024, 7:30pm
New Music, Illuminations: Individual & Community

Nathalie Joachim

Ki moun ou ye (Who are you?)
West Coast Premiere

Mar 7, 2024, 7:30pm
Jazz, Illuminations: Individual & Community

OKAN

Mar 8, 2024, 8pm
Dance

POSTPONED:
Batsheva Dance Company

MOMO
Bay Area Premiere

Mar 8–9, 2024
New Music, Illuminations: Individual & Community

Wild Up

Julius Eastman’s Femenine
Christopher Rountree, conductor

Mar 9, 2024, 8pm
Recital

Ema Nikolovska, mezzo-soprano
Howard Watkins, piano

Mar 10, 2024, 3pm
Dance

The Joffrey Ballet
Anna Karenina

Mar 15–17, 2024
Recital

Mark Padmore, tenor
Mitsuko Uchida, piano

Mar 17, 2024, 3pm
Chamber Music & Orchestra

Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Mitsuko Uchida, piano and director

José Maria Blumenschein, concertmaster and leader

Mar 24, 2024, 3pm
Dance

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Apr 2–7, 2024
Special Events

Cal Performances’ 2024 Gala

featuring the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Apr 4, 2024, 5:30pm
Early Music

Jakub Józef Orliński, countertenor
Il Pomo d’Oro

Beyond

Apr 9, 2024, 7:30pm
Family

Drum Tao

30th Anniversary Tour

Apr 11–12, 2024
Early Music

Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI

Le Nuove Musiche: The Baroque Revolution in Europe (1560–1660)

Apr 12, 2024, 8pm
Chamber Music & Orchestra

Danish String Quartet
Johannes Rostamo, cello

Apr 13, 2024, 8pm
Chamber Music & Orchestra

Quatuor Ébène

Apr 16, 2024, 7:30pm
Dance

Mark Morris Dance Group

World Premiere

Apr 19–21, 2024
Recital

Amina Edris, soprano
Pene Pati, tenor
Robert Mollicone, piano

Voyages

Apr 23, 2024, 7:30pm
Vocal Celebration

Angélique Kidjo

Apr 26, 2024, 8pm
Recital

Víkingur Ólafsson, piano

J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations

May 4, 2024, 2pm
Speakers
An Evening with David Sedaris
May 5, 2024, 3pm